Finalists

This award is designed to recognize business entities that give special attention to the local culture of Malta and Gozo, either through inspired goods or services. The essence of the local culture must be evident and integral to the business concept or the specific goods or services being nominated. The aim of the award is to identify businesses that successfully translate local culture into a commercial activity, breathing new life and visibility into it. The enterprise, product, and/or service must have been developed in Malta or primarily involve Maltese counterparts.

This award is designed to recognise the best initiative taking up by a business for care of society or the communities and leaving an impact. The initiatives should be focused on giving back to society and/or of an inclusive nature. Businesses are not simple commercial entities; they have an important role to play in society. Even though interventions might be completely self-less, it is recognised that many times this has a positive impact on the business implementing it. The Selection Committee will be looking for businesses that have a noble initiative to share that was specifically done not as a main commercial strategy but just to do something positive for the community, especially if revolving around an inclusive concept. 

This award is designed to recognise the workplace that brings the best out of their employees through the healthy workplace they foster. Whether it is based on individual initiative/s or a wellbeing programme, the workplace should be proven to have a positive impact, in one way or another on the individual employees. The Selection Committee will be looking for businesses that have a holistic understanding of wellbeing at the workplace and can possibly derive models that can be utilised to set an example, whilst also truly seeking to utilise the full capabilities of any individual, irrespective of their differences.   Examples could include the quality and safety of the physical environment, to how workers feel about their work, their working environment, the climate at work amongst others and equal opportunities at work.

This award is designed to recognise an Innovative Digital Solution. Digital solutions today offer exceptional means of service, efficiency and accessibility. Digital Solutions give users and those administering it valuable tools to be able to do more and reach farther, in addition to insights, added visibility, functions and AI benefits.  The Selection Committee will be analysing the solution in terms of its efficiency, innovative elements, facilities, development and deployment in line with recognised standards and best practices as well as the value added it gives to its users.  The solution would need to be developed partly or wholly in Malta and by/with the contribution of a local business.   

This award is designed to recognise the enterprise that has shown leadership in the implementation of sustainable operation within their sector with regards to the use of energy and water.  The Selection Committee will be looking for businesses that have been frontrunners and engrained energy and water sustainability in the enterprise ethos and therefore carried out sustainable energy and water initiatives to ensure the ability of future generations to meet their needs.   

This award is designed to recognise any form of enterprise sustainability initiative, which is however deemed to be innovative. The initiative should have contributed to their operational improvement or product/service efficiency and overall sustainability of the business with an innovation element embedded in it. The Selection Committee will be looking for businesses that have carried out innovative sustainable initiative/s in favour of the business beyond more traditional sustainable measures. 

Family business are a main pillar in Malta’s business makeup. The Selection Committee will be looking for a Family business that can show and equally balanced commitment and proficient attitude between the family structure and business model. Any specific structures, safeguards and plans will be considered in the adjudication.  

This award is designed to recognise a female Entrepreneur to champion for the Year. The Selection Committee will be looking for a female business owner/s showing exceptional entrepreneurial spirit, provides a fresh outlook to business and is backed by a good quality business plan and model. The successful progression of the business and forward-looking outlook will be taken into consideration.

This award is open to businesses operating in Gozo and designed to recognise the Best Gozo Business of the Year. The Selection Committee will be looking at the best businesses in a holistic manner, especially seeking those that can be deemed to be the best and/or made the most improvement holistically touching one or more of these areas: business growth and value added, innovation, employee work condition, support to society, environmentally friendly measures.  

This award is designed to recognise an SME (26 up to 250 employees including owner) as the champion of the Year. The Selection Committee will be looking at businesses that made an overall holistic improvement in one or more of these areas: business growth and value added, innovation, internationalisation, digitalisation, ESGs and work-life balance for employees.